U.S. intelligence services routinely use collection methods against foreigners that foreseeably - with certainty - ingest high volumes of U.S. communications as… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
“Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker's certainty in… — Karen Maitland Copy Share Image
“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We all return. It is this certainty that gives meaning to life and it does not make the slightest difference whether or… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Our culture is becoming more hostile to the gospel. This trend may be more established in Australia than in the USA, but… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I'm a big proponent of playing all sports when you're growing up. I think they all help you from a competitiveness standpoint… — Gordon Hayward Copy Share Image
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
All I'm arguing for really is that we should have a conversation where the best ideas really thrive, where there's no taboo… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“Death is the one great certainty in life. That’s what my dad used to say. Nothing else is certain. Not love. Not… — Mila Gray Copy Share Image
In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one's life earning money in order to… — Rolf Potts Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When we find our core certainty within, then we no longer look for certainty outside. The unfathomable nature of the ever-changing world… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“It was not a matter, mind you, of the certainty I had of being more intelligent than everyone else. Besides, such certainty… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The church's ... certainty is bound to certain norms and ... a feeling of subjective certainty does not guarantee irrefutable certainty ...… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I breathe deeply, and certainty enters into me like light, like a piece of science, and curious music seems to hum inside… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what to do,” he said. “No harm in that. I’ve never known what to do,” said Rincewind with hollow… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
EPA takes its Clean Air Act responsibilities seriously and is committed to providing certainty to state and industry partners. We will not… — Andrew R. Wheeler Copy Share Image
Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's… — David Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between wanting to say you wrote a book, and actually writing one. Many people think they want… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
[Donald Trump] is talking a lot about redoing trade and that's the area that is getting globalists nervous. Number one, they want… — Maria Bartiromo Copy Share Image
There are many paths to enlightenment. Some of us who have expanded to a degree of illumination have thereafter preached the dogmatic… — Thaddeus Golas Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We had been hopelessly labouring to plough waste lands; to make nationality grow in a place full of the certainty of God…… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
[I]f in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image